[socal-piggies] We need more PyCon US 2013 submissions!

Fri Sep 28 12:05:22 PDT 2012

Diane,

Those are good talk ideas. I hope to see your submission in the queue. :-)

Danny

On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 11:59 AM, Diane Trout <diane at caltech.edu> wrote:
> Hi Danny,
>
> Yay! I'm not the only one trying to use the semantic web. I haven't figured out how to get other people in my lab interested, so I've been doing it mostly to make my own work possibly easier or certainly more interesting.
>
> And thank you for the reassurance that it is something interesting to other people.
>
> I want to add a sub-title like:
>
> 1. How to use the Semantic Web right now.
> 2. Useful things to do with the semantic web.
>
> I'll go ahead and work out out the outline / pre-slides and submit them.
>
> Diane
>
> On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 11:25:49AM -0700, Daniel Greenfeld wrote:
>> Hi Diane,
>>
>> In my first year with Python I was doing RDF, RFDa, and Sparql at NASA
>> under the tutelage of Kendall Clark. It was incredible fun. You should
>> give this talk! Maybe with a title like:
>>
>> 1. Semantic Web via Python, RDF, RDFa, and Sparql
>> 2. Semantic Web: Python, RDF, RDFa, and Sparql
>> 3. Using Python to navigate the Semantic Web
>>
>> Danny
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 11:14 AM, Diane Trout <diane at caltech.edu> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I thought about the encouragement for submitting more talks, and was wondering if a talk on using RDF, RFDa, and Sparql would be appropriate and interesting for PyCon? I'm not really sure how to propose it?
>> >
>> > I was faced with a problem of needing to integrate data from an internal sample tracker, analysis metadata from grad students, and several upstream controlled vocabularies to submit our labs results to ENCODE. (The repositories we're sending things to have a desperate need for metadata so other groups can make sense of what we've been generating).
>> >
>> > I'd just read about linked data and thought "hey that looks neat", so I thought I'd try to make librdf's python RDF/RDFa/Sparql stack work.
>> >
>> > RDF is the data model of subject-predicate-object triples. (Which is almost the same as Object.name = value)
>> > RDFa is an encoding for RDF that lets you embed RDF statements in HTML.
>> > SPARQL is the query language for searching through triple-stores.
>> >
>> > The idea was use my experiences to illustrate:
>> >
>> > RDF/Sparql's strength is searching through graphs of information from different sources.
>> >
>> > RDF doesn't require a schema, which is useful for getting started when you don't know what you're trying to track.
>> >
>> > Unfortunately after a few months of work with schema-less datastores you can end up with an inconsistent mess. (I bet this happens to JSON stores frequently).
>> >
>> > The RDF specifications include a schema language but the tools I was using didn't have a validator, so I had to write one.
>> >
>> > RDFa provides an interesting way to markup a web page to make machine parsing easy. Also easy parsing makes some types of web page testing easier.
>> >
>> > Downsides, RDFa can be verbose, Complex Sparql queries can get slow.
>> >
>> > Also my use-case was a pretty small environment, so I didn't have to learn how to delete, I could just trash my triple-store and regenerate it.
>> >
>> > It looks like I was using RDF and Sparql for Integration, Data Warehouse and reporting.
>> >
>> > Diane
>> > On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 06:27:13PM -0700, Daniel Greenfeld wrote:
>> >> The PyCon US 2013 call for papers (CFP) ends tomorrow, September 28th,
>> >> 2012. We need more talk and tutorial submissions. Talks are 30 or 45
>> >> minute efforts in front of the PyCon audience and are recorded for
>> >> posterity. Tutorials are three hours long and are given to attendees
>> >> who have paid an additional fee in order to slurp in knowledge from
>> >> the masters.
>> >>
>> >> On the 3 hour tutorial side of things, we especially need more Intro
>> >> to Python level submission. That means getting beginners up to speed
>> >> on basic Python techniques, so they can then exploit the other
>> >> tutorials, conference, and sprints to their full advantage.
>> >>
>> >> Now onto some questions...
>> >>
>> >> 1. I would like to give a tutorial but it's so much work to put
>> >> together 3 hours of quality content.
>> >>
>> >> The organizers of PyCon recognize that putting together a quality
>> >> tutorial is an amazing amount of work. Which is why tutorial
>> >> presenters are compensated for their effort.
>> >>
>> >> 2. What is the most likely length talk to be accepted? 30 minutes or 45 minutes?
>> >>
>> >> The vast majority of PyCon sessions are 30 minutes long, so 45 minute
>> >> slots are rare and valuable commodities. So if your talk needs to be
>> >> 45 minutes long your proposal has to really speak to the PyCon talk
>> >> reviewers.
>> >>
>> >> Not only that, if reviewers send you information requests for any
>> >> duration talk or tutorial, you dramatically increase your odds of talk
>> >> acceptance with timely responses.
>> >>
>> >> And, as said before, PyCon really needs more introductory level Python
>> >> tutorial submissions.
>> >>
>> >> 3. I would like to present a talk or tutorial but I can't afford to
>> >> come to PyCon.
>> >>
>> >> PyCon's financial aid program is said to favor accepted speakers to
>> >> PyCon. They really want you to come!
>> >>
>> >> 4. I would like to present but I can't come up with a good idea!
>> >>
>> >> I had this problem as well! Then I looked at the Suggested Tutorial
>> >> Topics and got some ideas.
>> >>
>> >> 5. Ack! I've got a talk idea but it's going to take me too much time
>> >> to put it together!
>> >>
>> >> Submit the talk anyway before the talk and in fields you aren't ready
>> >> to fill in, simply put 'TBD'. Then over the course of the next few
>> >> days replace TBD with real material. Don't wait too long though to fix
>> >> those TBDs, no more than a week!
>> >>
>> >> 6. I'm a beginner/nobody in the community, is there any chance my
>> >> proposal will get accepted.
>> >>
>> >> Absolutely!
>> >>
>> >> The PyCon talk/tutorial reviewers love to see new people present.
>> >> While experienced/proven speakers have an edge, good talk/tutorial
>> >> proposals from promising candidates can make it into the conference.
>> >> Carefully double-check your submission, be responsive to reviewers,
>> >> and stay positive. I'm not saying you will get in, but I am saying
>> >> it's worth the effort.
>> >>
>> >> Good luck!
>> >>
>> >> PyCon 2013 is going to be bigger and better than any previous year.
>> >> That's because we pull together as a community to run an amazing event
>> >> that is known to jumpstart careers and cause amazing life changes. We
>> >> can't do this without you, so hurry up on your PyCon US 2013
>> >> submissions!
>> >>
>> >> https://us.pycon.org/2013/speaking/cfp/
>> >>
>> >> --
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>> >> Daniel Greenfeld
>> >> http://pydanny.com
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